Portrait in sepia

I have just finished reading A Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende, I enjoy her novels, her prose is very poetic. The main character in this one becomes a photographer in Chile mid 1800s , taking photographs of her family and the ordinary people working around her.

"What at first view seems to be a tangle of coincidences is, in the precise eye of the camera, revealed in all its perfect symmetry. Nothing is casual, nothing is banal.....The essential is often invisible: the eye doesn't capture it, only the heart, but the camera at times obtains glimpses of that substance... and touches the core, the very soul of reality."
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[Richard Sayer]

Nicely done and a perfect illustration for the book.

[kali]

@vignouse thankyou Richard

[Megan]

@kali66 Wow! Sounds like an interesting book. Love your visualization of it!

[Caroline]

Beautifully executed Kali, it does look like an old time photo! And interesting subject, I often put on my 'to read' list book suggestions from this site :)

[Domenico Dodaro]

Yeah! Original of the time, did you have a great-great-grandmother in Chile in mid nineteenth Century? @kali66

[Julie Duncan]

Fabulous, with a haunting quality not easily defined.

[summerfield]

i thought it was one of your mother's. a rather fabulous shot!

[kali]

@kerosene @juliedduncan @summerfield @domenicododaro thanks for the feedback...glad to have some archives of selfies to call in a favour! i am from good British stock Domenico... cant imagine a chilean connection , but who knows...